Early morning rant
By bigpumpkin | March 9, 2010
Last night, I told my helper to deep fry half a packet of baby anchovies so that Tee could snack on them. She loves eating fried anchovies as they are salty and since she gets some form of calcium from them, I allow it. When I woke up this morning, there were two huge mountains of baby anchovies already deep fried, equivalent to 10 to times the amount I’d told my helper to fry.
This is an ongoing affair. For the 1st 8 months, I have been extremely nice to her (and I am still nice but I’m losing my patience a little) and told myself that she was on a steep learning curve. Her job here is easy. She needs to cook sometimes and keep the home clean. As just so you know, we have a small home. One that can be cleaned in half a day. So what does one do over 7 days? Beats me. But that is not her fault. What irks me is instructions cannot be followed, or they are forgotten. If an educated Filipino woman cannot take simple instructions like fry half a packet versus fry 10 packets, then I might as well save my money and employ a cheaper helper! She really is of no benefit to me right now and I am more than happy to get rid of her as I don’t think she is worth the money.
After getting a handphone on her 2nd month here, things have gone down hill. I don’t think she takes her work seriously if she cannot make more of an effort to remember or write down my instructions.
We had carted back all the way from Kelantan some premium fish crackers that had to be pre-ordered months before and I gave her a simple instruction. Take two packets out of the blue bag and put it in the red bag. She took two packets from my kitchen and put it in the red bag which resulted in us not having any fish crackers to ourselves. These fish crackers are like gold, ok? We have to order them 4-6 months in advance as the lady depends on when there is fresh fish caught (sometimes, there is just no fish) and we have to travel to the Thai border to collect them. They are very expensive too.
Little things like that are really irritating me. For the 1st 8 months, I would just tell her nicely to try not to make such mistakes again but hello? Is it getting any better? No.
We give her extras all the time. We send back money for her and we don’t charge her for bank charges, postal charges, we even put in extra for her 2 daughters…..but why is she not making an effort to do a better job? I almost want to send her back now! At least I won’t be so heart sick that I’m wasting money on someone who only gives me more stress!
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How much intellect for an administration job?
By bigpumpkin | March 9, 2010
Since I’m in the mood, I was wondering if a house maid can ever have an administration job in an office? Seriously, assuming they had a tertiary education, can read and write pretty fluently, had some common sense, do you think they’d qualify for an admin jobs? Mine is pretty smart but I wonder. I wonder how she’d fare in an office environment. Perhaps better than in a home environment? Perhaps……
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7 month old baby bronchitis
By bigpumpkin | March 8, 2010
This is the 2nd time T2 has been ill being an exclusively breastfed baby. Tee started with formula and was exclusively breastfed for maybe 3 months and was way healthier than T2 ever was. Anyway…..T2 is much better now. We’re both still coughing lots with lots of phlegm but at least, we’re not dying ill like before. However, Tee and the Hubs have started a dry cough. Let’s hope they are strong enough to fight it as Tee’s 1st semester exam starts this week. Hahaha….5 years old with an exam. Totally funny.
If your baby has a wet cough, take her to the Doctor immediately to get her treated as she would be at risk of developing pneumonia. I did not know this. But in babies, bronchitis can easily develop into pneumonia.
In terms of T2 putting on weight, I’m finally at ease now. The pediatrician checked her inside out thoroughly, put her on her tummy, watched how she grasped objects and transferred them from left to right and right to left, put her on sitting position and watch her balance herself with her hands, then fall over like Humpty Dumpty (he said no problem as this usually happens between 8-10 months though Tee sat at 5 months), watched how she picked up raisins, watched how quickly she rotated her head to noise, watched how she chuckled at funny faces, watched her eyes and said she was a bright, active child and had no symptoms of being spastic or retarded or…..he named some other disability names but I can’t remember them. So PHEW!!! She’s just a small, active baby.
The Doctor did say that although T2 was 7 months old, developmentally she should only be 5 months and 3 weeks as she was born 5 weeks early. So take note. If your baby is X number of weeks early from her due date, developmentally, you need to look at their age from that perspective.
I worried like hell for nothing. But thank GOD!
T2 can now hold her own sippy cup and drink from it. She has started doing sausage rolls in bed (very dangerous) as we will hear a thud one day. Followed by a loud wail. She now loves being on her tummy more than on her back and can communicate very well. She certainly has no qualms speaking her mind about things! In fact, at the risk of making an understatement, she is even bossier than Tee. Die-die-die…..why do I have 2 bossy girls??!! How can I un-bossy them???
She loves her sister the most as Tee plays all kinds of funny games with her. I am only her boob pacifier and Daddy is another favourite as he spoils her rotten. Whatever T2 wants, she gets with Daddy. In fact, her eyes light up every night when he comes home from work(if she is still awake) and she ‘talks’ to him, making him carry her and take her for walks. He is such a sucker.
One of T2’s greatest weakness, is that she sleeps very little. Only a total of 11 hours per day inclusive of naps. She has in all her waking hour, 1 or 2 naps of half an hour each. She sleeps at night about 10-11pm and wakes at 8-9am (with 2 quick feeds in between). However, now that she’s on meds, last night she slept at 730pm and woke only at 1030am this morning!!! I know I’d be dreaming to even hope that this pattern would continue but having said that, she did wake every 2-3 hours looking for the boob!!
Everyone says what a good baby she is and yes, she is generally much calmer than Tee ever was. Taking meds for example, has been a breeze with T2. We just need to put the syringe in her mouth(she will even open it for you) and poke in 0.5ml at a time and she’ll swallow it without any fuss. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??? With Tee, even with THREE adults holding her down, we were unsuccessful in giving her meds and it would be a one hour saga at minimum. Those of you who grew up with Tee on this blog will know how she always had a knack of getting ill just before a holiday and know how she really tortured us with medicine taking. Tee, oh my dearest Tee…..
T2 has this habit of crossing her legs most times. It’s cute. Her little feet are always crossed. But when she drinks her milk, she will open up her legs and shake one leg by holding that feet with her hand. Goyang-goyang up and down, bent and straight…..like a big taukeh who’s really enjoying her milk. The way I enjoy good chocolate.
T2 is currently on 3 meals a day although she hardly eats much for lunch. She has a fruit cereal for breakfast and usually porridge for lunch and dinner. But seeing that she hardly eats lunch, I might change her lunch into a yoghurt or something lighter. She loves her porridge though finishing up to 200ml portions at any one time. And of course, she loves her cereal too, so I guess she just loves food in general. Like me.
She has the cheekiest grin to melt hearts and boy, she really does know how to get her way! Even Tee wasn’t so manipulative. We really have two devils who are disguised as angels!
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Fixing lights
By bigpumpkin | March 8, 2010
The lights in our living room have a habit of going bust every now and then and when they do, Tee would become the broken record reminder to the Hubs that he needs to fix it as it involves her. Her desk sits in the middle of the living room, facing the TV(although the TV is spoilt now, so she can hardly watch any!) but she uses her desk to do her work and projects and I don’t know what else. One day, she even suggested we change the lighting and install some Golden lighting fixtures instead!
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And we’re all sick!
By bigpumpkin | March 5, 2010
Spent RM180 at T2’s Doctor today for antibiotics yadayada. My baby has bronchitis and if I hadn’t seen him today, it could have very quickly turned into pneumonia. I, myself, went to see a Doctor this evening, another RM60 but wasn’t prescribed antibiotics because I am breastfeeding. The reason I saw the Doctor was because T2’s paed said that if Mommy wasn’t well, Mommy would reinfect baby again after baby was well. Now, Tee is fighting this cough that we’ve had since Chinese New Year, 20 days ago!!!
To make matters worse, my Dell laptop died on me last night whilst we were watching Sandra Bullock’s latest movie, The Blind Side. Gah! The Hubs thought the hard drive had died so went out to get a new hard drive for RM180 but when he installed it this evening, it was still dead. Perhaps I need a new laptop? Like an Apple? And just as I told him I now had some US dollars from my blogging savings, he said I might have to use it for a new laptop because he ain’t got any money for a new one! Apple or Dell, people?
A few weeks ago, Tee came home and told me they had assembly in school that day. Naturally very interested in my daughter’s school life, I asked her what assembly entailed, who spoke, what they did, how they behaved, whether they stood, sat on chairs or on the floor??? I HAD to rub it in that in my day, assembly was standing out in the hot sun, sweating in our uniforms and waiting till the principal was done with her speech, then walking up lots of stairs to our classrooms. Tee said they sat down. On chairs! In an air-conditioned hall!!! The life of kids these days!
So after some interrogation, she explained that the principal had given out Chinese New Year oranges to every single student and they had to walk up to stage to collect their oranges and chocolate and shake the principal’s hand. The principal also talked about IT. What about IT, I asked. I was aware that Tee’s school had an IT department and was wondering what was of significance in IT that had to be announced during assembly? And to 5 year old kids? What did THEY know about IT?
I pressed on for more details but Tee kept saying she couldn’t remember. How frustrating for a mother! I got creative and asked at every angle. Is there a new IT teacher? Are they getting more computers? Is the IT room being renovated? Is the room being relocated? Then she yelled, “AHH! I remember now, Mommy! She said to pray for IT so we all had to pray for IT…”
PRAY FOR IT????? What the hell? And seconds later, I burst into hysterics when I realised the principal was certainly talking about Haiti and not IT. Tee confirmed this when she started talking about earthquakes and poor people yadayadayada…….*sigh* All that effort.
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Stressed beyond recognition
By bigpumpkin | March 2, 2010
My little munchkin above is capable of stressing me out to the point that Tee no longer recognises her own mother. I have metamorphosised into a flaming dragon in heat who’s just lost her King, not to another female dragon but to a….to a…..dirty pig! What does He want with a pig? She has no fire? She cannot fly?
You see the way T2 looks at the camera? At 6 months, she already knows how to tantalise the world with her charm. And being such a good girl most days, little do people know that she can herself turn into an extremely fierce baby dragon at night. When she wants to. She is fiercer than Tee ever was, but much, much sweeter. Isn’t that worse? I usually stay away from those types much preferring people whom are open book and direct.
But that isn’t what’s stressing me out. What is stressing me out is that she has started solids for a month and a half now. She loves…….her food and can eat up to 250ml worth of solids be it pureed fruit or baby cereal. Yet, she has only gained 100 grams in a month as opposed to 1000. There is clearly something wrong with her absorption of nutrients but we only see the Doctor next week so as it stands, Mommy is having sleepless nights (plus baby T2 has a flu and is coughing like crazy which gives HER sleepless nights) worrying herself silly. I am stressed out. I have tried not being stressed out. And I’m usually one who can take a lot of stress. But this time round, my hands are up. I’m surrendering to the fact that I am no longer in control of this. It is making me very, very sad.
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On the contrary…..
By bigpumpkin | March 2, 2010
So after blabbing on about how I was going to make an effort to verbalise my answers to people the other day, I have now decided STUFF IT. Yes, like Elaine says, why bore you with the mundane details. That is how boring my life is. And since I am a woman (I didn’t see a big, bulging crotch down there the last time I checked), I am ALLOWED to be fickled. The Hubs always reminds that women are fickle. Period. Even Tee. Even T2. C’est la vie.
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Stop busy-ness from taking over your life
By bigpumpkin | February 27, 2010
It is all too common these days to hear parents (and even singles who are caught up in the rat race amongst others) say that they are just too busy. Everyone is busy. Honestly, how many people do you know who aren’t very busy? For me, only my grandparents! Or those retiree uncles and aunts. Even they have schedules playing golf and what not.
However, as busy as I am, I have decided that I no longer want to use this over-rated, cliched word anymore. Because I’m tired of hearing the word. If I really am busy, I will say I have to attend Tee’s swimming gala, then a birthday party, then to the library and then have dinner at a friend’s. Or I need to organise my home today and take T2 to the park.
I would like to learn how to verbalise my life rather than just say I’m busy. It’s exactly like when someone asks you, how are you? I’m OK. What does THAT mean? Some detail would be nice. And honestly, how many people really say, I’m not OK. It’s almost like we’re living in a robotic world where standard answers are given, which makes it pointless in asking those questions in the first place. Whenever someone asks me how I am, I also want to say it exactly as it is. And perhaps you may not want to know how tired I am (the truth) and if you don’t, then don’t ask. Right? If you don’t really care, don’t ask! Why pretend? Why follow the crowd of cliches?
Too often, I have neglected family and friends because I have two kids and know too many people. So even if I decide to catch up with everyone on a rota, like call 5 people each week ( for example), this already eats into my time. Time which I would rather spend with my girls as I already feel that I don’t have enough time with them. Life IS busy. There is banking to do, groceries to shop for, cars to service, fees to pay, errands to run, books to return, clothes to fix, watches to repair, dry-cleaning, dinner with family…….the list is endless. But if we do not make the effort to touch base with people every now and then, we will not know whether they are dead or alive.
Recently, an old friend of mine (whom I never keep in touch with because we both have 2 kids but we bump into each other now and again), her 5 year old child had a brain tumour. This made me feel awful as I had to find it out from another source. It is awful because no 5 year old should have to suffer like that. It is awful because the child is Tee’s age. It is awful because it is very real and could happen to Tee too. The moment something like that happens to you, you stop on your tracks and not only count your many blessings but reassess your life and decide how busy you really need to be.
If something tragic such as an illness or something else negative happened to you, would you be broadcasting it out to the world? Probably not. Likewise, we shouldn’t expect others to inform us too about their bad news, adding to the fact that they are already suffering, let alone make calls to inform the rest. If you are genuinely interested and care about a person, then you should be making the call to enquire how the person is. I should have been more in touch with my friend to know that her 5 year old child was just admitted for brain surgery.
Likewise, my brother is now in hospital but why should he tell the world? If enough people cared about him, they would know. And with this, I am referring to a particular someone of the same blood, who has hardly shown to take an interest in our lives. And because of that, I refuse to inform him.
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Traveling at short notice
By bigpumpkin | February 25, 2010
We finally got all our passports done. Not without a lot of pain and me speaking to the head of immigration, mind you. Anyway, it is now done. The good thing about it is that apart from going on holiday together as a family, we never know when we would need to be on a travel emergency, you know, like when somebody is in hospital abroad. Or something like that although God forbid, we never have to travel on emergency. Thank goodness, my brother who is right now in hospital, is in hospital here in KL.
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Straight from the horses mouth
By bigpumpkin | February 25, 2010
I wish I don’t have parents who are stressed out all the time! (well, why do you think we’re stressed out all the time, little lady???)
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Mommy: Tee, don’t get married unless you want to have kids, OK? There is no reason to get married. Do you want to have kids one day?
Tee: *shakes her head furiously* Nooooononono…… I’m not going to have that nipple biting thing!! (she sees T2 biting me all the time and me shouting NO and removing the nipple from T2 - LOL)
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Whilst opening an ice popsicle for her, I commented that the tube was really sooooo cold!!!
Tee: It’s an ice popsicle. What do you expect?? (now seriously…..was that really necessary?)
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Whilst driving around in Kota Bharu, I asked Tee if she knew the difference between a hill and a meadow (I don’t. Ok, I googled and now I do)
Tee: A meadow has lots of grass, flowers and cows……A hill only has green grass and signboards. (we were passing by quite a few hills and they all had Malaysian road signage or billboards on them)
So it appears my daughter knows perhaps some things I don’t.
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Tonight is homework night and whilst going through her English exercise book, I spotted a mistake and a correction. Just yesterday, she was saying how she didn’t have to do any corrections so I jumped at the chance to point out her mistake. She was nonchalant. Then whilst I read her work out aloud trying to figure out her mistake, I said, “Wow….conjunction. What the hell is a conjunction?” as the instruction said to write out the correct conjunctions etc.
Tee: A conjunction is a word that joins two sentences together like ‘and’ and ‘but’. Did YOUUUUUU know that??? She cocky-eyed the Hubs and I. BUSTED.
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Do you think she deserves to be slapped?
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People who need to grow
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
This world and especially in KL, has so many defected people who really need to be more exposed, gain more experience and learn about the ways of the world. I come across defected people on a daily basis and it saddens me. But as much as I try to help them, sometimes, people just don’t want to be helped and want to stay the way they are forever. I wonder if using some human growth hormone would work on them…..
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Daily jog
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
My in laws have this looooong driveway that calls out to me every morning at 6am to get my butt downstairs and move back and forth on it for a good 60 minutes. I carried my sneakers all the way to Kota Bharu and all the way back and only used it once. Why? T2 needed me at 6am almost every morning. It was like she knew Mommy was about to sneak out on her and she’d wake up wanting the boob. Truth be told, I didn’t really mind. God, I am so bad…..
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How to get rid of dark circles
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
You know, I’ve never, ever had a problem with dark circles until now. I not only have to get up to feed my baby in the wee hours of the morning but at least once a week, I am forced to get online to work till the wee hours in order to complete my assignments. How to avoid dark circles? Use lots of concealer and cold cucumbers!
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My little FBI
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
Kong-Kong had bought Tee this cool outfit and she LOVES it. She was making up phrases for the alphabets FBI all day, like Fat Boy Icing, Funny Baby Igloo, Fun Bobo Island etc. When Kong-Kong finally told her what the real meaning of FBI was, she felt really important. What more, he told her that when she met the immigration officer the next time, to shake his hand to say hello, and that she was from America, from the FBI. On our journey back, she was looking forward to meeting that immigration officers but of course, it being a local flight didn’t happen. Instead, one of the MAS crew on board bid her farewell, “Goodbye FBI!!!” and she was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pleased. Someone had noticed!!!
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Stress causes acne
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
After all those Chinese New Year goodies and with the stress that I have been enduring these last weeks, my face is now resembling that of the moon. Yup, filled with craters. OK, I’ll try not to be so dramatic. But seriously, when was the last time I suffered from acne? I can’t even remember! But now, when I’m almost hitting the big four ‘O’, I’m suddenly breaking out like a teenager? What’s up with that?
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A trip to Pengkalan Kubur
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
Pengkalan Kubur is a town in Kelantan that borders with Thailand. It is a duty free town and my in-laws go there every week for the best coffee in Malaysia. Every visit to Kota Bharu for us will always be accompanied with a visit to Pengkalan Kubur for this very special coffee which you can find here:
PK is famous for fake branded goods…
Like this fake GUESS little girl’s dress!
There’s also Burberry…..and everything else……
I found real Nescafe Gold CHEAP!!!
How much is it in KL again? We stock 2 coffees in our home - Nescafe Gold for quick instants and the more sophisticated stuff.
I just wanted to add that my daughter, Tee, perpetually has a worm up her butt. Here she is ‘walking’ around Pengkalan Kubur with MIL and SIL and she cannot even WALK. She has to DANCE…..
Well, at least she’s a happy kid. A little psycho.
And my baby, T2, was a darling throughout the entire road trip as always. Despite the scorching sun that caused the Hubs and I to come down with some serious headaches!
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Applying sample creams
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
I am usually one who is too lazy to apply moisturisers of any sort but in my recent trip to Kota Bharu, I knew it would be very, very hot and that I would be very dehydrated so I brought along some sample wrinkle lotion to apply whilst I was there. I couldn’t remember how long I had had those samples but they stung my eyes! Is that normal? And now I have broken out in some zits. Perhaps it is time for a facial….
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Our first 3 hours in Kota Bharu
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
After waking up to catch a plane at 630am, we finally arrived in Kota Bharu for Chinese New Year at my in-laws and guess what the girls got up to for the next 3 hours?
Tee was sent to do some colouring whilst T2 ate her lunch…..
Then, my SIL taught Tee the Chinese Zodiac and Tee has promised to learn it as she has to recite it back to SIL next Chinese New Year. For days after, SIL would ask Tee every morning which animal comes after which animal. Even I don’t know what the chinese zodiac is but I have google if I ever need to know *wink*
Whilst Tee was busy with SIL and BIL learning her chinese zodiac, we caught up with MIL and FIL and left T2 busy to perform her favourite past time - tearing tissues. But after the tenth tissue, I stopped her and this is what happened…..
When the sun wasn’t so scorching hot, we finally allowed Tee to get onto her Kota Bharu bicycle. But only in the porch where it is shaded.
And T2 got her first taste of driving. I think she liked it!
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Cellulite is genetic
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
Cellulite is genetic but a lot of it also depends on ones diet. I’ve had this dreaded orange peel butt ever since I was 13 and despite being very slim then, I still had a dimpled bum and I used to hate it! Every time I sat down, I would use my hand to cover it consciously. As a teenager, I tried several brands of cellulite gels including the famous (then) Elancyl and Christian Dior and Clarins but all they did was improve the skin by a fraction. But that was 20 years ago. Who knows? Technology might have caught up by now!
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The hardest thing about being a Stay-At-Home-Mom
By bigpumpkin | February 18, 2010
Must be the isolation and loneliness that it entails. Unless you are one who is frequently having guests over, talking to children on a daily basis tends to get monotonous and boring. Sure, there are good days and there are great days. But after doing it for 5 years and possibly another 5 to go, of late, I have been doing a lot of day dreaming. I told the Hubs tonight, imagine if we didn’t have kids……
We could be reading on a waterbed atop a glassed floor with colourful fishes below and blue sky above in the Maldives, sipping Margaritas and slamming tequilas. Playing scrabble and making passionate love. With contraception! And he had to add, “Yeah….and imagine all the handbags and shoes you could potentially have!”
I’m not even that crazy about handbags and shoes. I only become crazy about them when I am depressed. Because really, what do I have at the end of a hard day’s work? Day in-day out….I care for my girls, not having a single moment for myself (although I try very hard to sneak in an hour of exercise or computer time or even just a quick shower!) and I feel as though from dawn till dusk, I am at their disposal. When they are finally asleep, I am too exhausted to do anything else or even go out to meet up with friends. At best, a little attention from the Hubs would be nice but even he, is too exhausted. I know that their livelihood is my responsibility and that my job is to do my utmost best in bringing them up in the best way I know how, but these days, I need to really FOCUS on that goal. For my mind drifts……
So most nights, I stay awake pondering about my situation because I refuse to acknowledge that this is it. This is it - from dawn to dusk I work for my kids and then go to sleep. Getting online, which is the only reprieve I seem to get, is also a challenge. So what does one do?
Am I experiencing a late dose of post-natal depression?
Don’t be sad, Mommy…..
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Make project management easier
By bigpumpkin | February 17, 2010
In my days as project manager, I was known as the great project manager because I was not only young, I was the only lady and I could sure kick some butt. I was diligent on a daily and hourly basis to follow up and chase, chase, chase until things got done. On time or ahead of schedule, cost savings without quality compromise, negotiations on why things should be done right now, fighting tooth and nail till they got done. What a reputation I’d mustered but without blood and sweat. If only they’d had the sophisticated kind of project management software that they have these days, my life would have been SO MUCH SIMPLER!!! Yish!!!
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How to shut a kid up on a plane
By bigpumpkin | February 17, 2010
Whilst we’re on the roll on planes and chatty chicks, I thought I’d share how we managed T2’s first plane ride ever. Tee had her 1st plane ride when she was 4 months old. She has traveled more places now than I ever had before I was 30 and that’s really saying something. She was never a good traveler as a kid as she could never sleep on a plane. Once, we thought we’d let her sleep a Melbourne leg by booking a night flight, and despite being upgraded (for free) to First Class, she couldn’t frigging sleep. What’s a mother to do when she herself doesn’t get to revel in her once in a lifetime upgrade to first class on a Boeing 747? Now you know why I’m edgy.
Anyway, we were nervous about T2’s first plane ride and then having to manage not one crying screaming baby but a noisy, questioneering preschooler as well so we brought along the…..the……magic of all magics……the DSi.
That sorted Tee out. One down, another to go. It turned out that T2 hadn’t a single issue about planes and flew like a natural. She must’ve been a pilot in her past life. Look at her eyeing that new toy in front of her that she reaches out to dabble with pretending she’s baby pilot, rotating the lever and then THUD!!! The table falls smack on her head.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No. Only kidding. I (despite being blur and everything else), have much quicker reflexes than that.
And whilst we’re talking about MAS planes, here is the newly renovated interiors of the plane we flew. I loved it. It was so….HAPPY!!! Perfect for welcoming in the Tigress New Year. It certainly cheered my mood (not that it was ever bad to start with) but honestly, it made me extra cheerful. Go MAS!
Oh, and I forgot to add…..Tee kept whinging why she couldn’t sit on a GREEN chair. She really had to have a GREEN chair or moss would grow on her bottom. I told her that the only way she was going to have a GREEN chair was if she asked those already one the GREEN chairs if they would swap with her and NO, I wasn’t going to ask for her.
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Errant drivers at school
By bigpumpkin | February 17, 2010
One thing that irritates me about Tee’s school is the way cars and their respective drivers rule the road as though their grandfathers built them. These people, they practise their driving skills as though it was a bumper car ride outside the school. What more, there is no vehicular discipline at all. Cars just go everywhere and there is no enforcer. Soon enough, I am about to write a letter making this complaint but just haven’t had a chance to do it yet. Just last week, the Hubs got knocked by a swanky Audi with a Singaporean number plate. When he got down, the young mother innocently asked, “Oh….did I knock you?” She was dead lucky the Hubs did not smash her face as it would have been unsightly in front of all those school going children. That reminds me, I better request for those auto insurance quotes soon that the Hubs has asked me to get.
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Now Everyone Can Fly……
By bigpumpkin | February 17, 2010
…..LATE AS USUAL!!! (is what TF left out in his tagline!) We didn’t fly Air Asia this time but took MAS instead and were pleasantly surprised and happy with MAS this time round. Truth be told, I don’t have a favourite. It’s almost like a Celcom-Maxis war. They’re both &#$%@*
Tee had an educational lesson today because we were early at the airport and thanks to Air Asia having some problems on the runway parking lot (what do you call that whole space that is not exactly the runway?), she observed with keen interest and asked lots of questions.
On top of that, she got to witness 3 Cesna planes take off and a huge helicopter landing. Unfortunately, from where we were, she couldn’t witness the full taking off of the late Air Asia plane that was supposed to depart at 9.50am but instead left 40 minutes late. So to date, Tee has still not seen first hand a big plane take off nor land. Unless we saw it in Tokyo. I’ve forgotten but that was the only time we had lots of time at the airport to actually look out. Maybe we did but she was asleep…..argh, I cannot remember! She was only 3.5 years old then anyway, too young to understand the physics of a plane.
Tee noticed that the 3 guys underneath the plane who were tugging at some rope from the plane had some furry dots on their ears. Ear muffs I told her. And amidst the gazillion questions (why can’t the plane reverse? how can the small truck push the big plane? what if the plane runs over the little men there? why do they have dots on their ears? what’s wrong with the plane? blablablablabla……), I was wondering to myself where Air Asia or airport management get those big ass ear muffs from? Because you know, I could really do with a pair. Seriously. Does anyone know? I want one because my 5 year old daughter can NOT stop talking.
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Do you own a pair of Cole Haans?
By bigpumpkin | February 17, 2010
Do you? Do you? What’s the verdict? I’ve had a browse through their website and there are some very, very nice designs but since I’ve never owned a pair of Cole Haans, I cannot comment on their quality. Care to share? Some of their moccasins look temptingly comfortable, it almost makes my feet want to melt in their gloves of soft leather. So speak up! How many of you out there own a pair of shoes from Cole Haan?
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